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Literature

Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros”: A Poem of Metaphor and the Burden of Uniqueness

Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Albatros”

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Literature

The Scarlet Letter as a Symbolic Novel

A symbol is something used to stand for something else. A symbol is often a concrete object used to represent an abstract idea having a broader meaning which is often moral, religious or philosophical. Nathaniel Hawthorne who is considered one of the most prolific symbolizes in American literature, had the perfect atmosphere for shedding light […]

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Language

Behaviourism and Innatism in Language Acquisition

Since long, language acquisition has been a matter of concern. There are some basic theories advanced to describe how language is acquired, learnt and taught. Some of these are the Behaviourist theory, The Innatist/Nativist theory, Cognitive theory, and Interactionism. Of these, Behaviourism and Innatism are mainly applicable to First Language Acquisition. As I am going […]

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Literature

Realism in Robert Frost’s poetry

Pecking into the literary works of Robert Frost, we get indulged in a soothing, pastoral setting close to nature which get to realize behind the curtains of our eyes. Whenever we find something close to nature, often we think about the romantic poets of the early 19th century. We find William Wordsworth, who is known […]

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Literature

Existential Crisis in The Metamorphosis

If we start to think about the purpose of life and where it might end, what is the answer we are likely to get? Why do we live and what is the meaning of our life? As at the end we are all going to die. Is our life merely meaningless? These questions relating to […]

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Biography Literature

Michael Madhusudan Dutt : Pioneer of Bengali Literature

Michael Madhusudan Dutt was one of the most popular Bengali poet of the 19th century. He is considered as first great poet of modern Bengali literature. His contributions to Bengali literature are immense, the reason he is vastly remembered for. He worked on various genres such as sonnets, plays, and epic poem. Early life of […]

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Literature

Absurdity in The Outsider

Absurdism doesn’t work with logic or reasoning and in literature writers’ chose this to show the meaninglessness of life with the happenings of illogical events. It is definitely a theme of modern plays as it tries to reflect the reality of modern people’s life. But the way modern playwrights Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka […]

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Literature

Concept of Goodness in The Good Woman of Setzuan

The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht portrays the struggle to be good while living in a deceitful society, and the delicate balance needed to survive within it. Throughout the book, it clarifies that it is sinuous to be a good person like Shen Te. That is why she needs Shui Ta, her alter […]

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Literature

Gender Role in The Sun Also Rises

Introduction Before discussing the gender role in The Sun Also Rises, we might clear a typical thing. We often get confused and think that sex and gender are the same thing. But there is added description of gender which refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes […]

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Literature

Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold

Every writer of different period, pens down for a motive, to fulfill a purpose and nonetheless it has some message to provide about that era. Just as how we get an insight into the hollowness of 14th century by going through Goeffrey Chaucer‘s The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, we get to feel the melancholy […]